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Around Town: Educational Foundation to screen 'The Hunger Games'
The La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation consistently comes through for our public schools. This month, the LCUSD accepted a $2-million check from the foundation. “Foundation President Paul Murray noted it was a record amount for the...Tags: Book, Harry Potter (fictional character), Entertainment, Television, Armed Forces
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Around Town: Joaquin, Rosita and history
This story is true. Or not. At right about the time of the California Gold Rush, around 1849, a young man named Joaquin Murieta and his pretty wife Rosita traveled north from Mexico, to the California mining camps to mine for gold. The threads of...Tags: Robin Hood, Los Angeles Times, Mining, Halloween, Gold and Precious Material
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LCF Library hopes Potter casts a spell
Melissa Rajala was never afraid to make the midnight trek to the bookstore to pick up the newest book of the Harry Potter series as soon as it hit the shelves, even if she didn’t fit J.K. Rowling’s primary demographic. “I was one of the...Tags: Marathon, Foods and Beverages, Sports, J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Thinking about Barbara
Girls can do anything, part two. Barbara Schuman was the brightest kid in the neighborhood. She excelled in school, could throw a ball as far as any boy, climb a tree, run like the wind, and was prettier than a picture. Barbara believed that everything...Tags: Texas, Hudson River, Robert Bly, Education, Colleges and Universities
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Readers gather around author
The La Cañada Flintridge One City One Book committee held its 7th annual author event on Sunday, the rainy weather not being enough to deter readers and fans of this year's selected book: Alan Brennert's "Honolulu."
The event took place at the La Cañada...Tags: Genres, Hawaii, John Steinbeck
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The Valley Line: Theater at its best
Last week was a bonanza for musical theater aficionados with the opening of two major Broadway revivals. On Tuesday night, "A Chorus Line" opened to a sold-out crowd at Hollywood's historic Pantages Theatre. Rogers and Hammerstein's endearing musical...Tags: New York, A Chorus Line (musical), Lincoln Center, Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater
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It's a new, sparkling 'Universe' at Adler Planetarium
Almost a year ago, to inaugurate its state-of-the-art central domed theater, Adler Planetarium debuted a show called "The Searcher." It used massive amounts of data to show outer space, real and imagined, in stunning detail. Carl Sagan's son wrote the...
Tags: Coldplay (music group), Entertainment, Music, Adler Planetarium, Arts and Culture
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Prices cause most amazement at Harry Potter studio
LONDON — Before touring the studio where the Harry Potter movies were filmed, I wanted to take the kids to another key Potter site. Unable to find the red telephone booth leading to the Ministry of Magic, we settled for the Millennium Bridge,...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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On Sunday: Bechdel's mom, Theroux's Africa and Mantel's Cromwell
Jacket CopyOn Sunday: Alison Bechdel's mom, Paul Theroux's Africa and Hilary Mantel's Cromwell.... -
'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Love is a battlefield in the HBO movie
Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s,...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Testosterone, Clark Gable, Celebrities, Entertainment
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SpaceX pushes back the final frontier
If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Economy, Business and Finance, Trips and Vacations, Human Interest, Transportation
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A bet on books' continuing pop-hop
Like a bad love affair, they kept it a secret from their families as long as they could. Because in 2012, who can admit the thing they want more than anything in the world is to open a bookstore? Now they know. Pop-Hop Books & Print is holding its...
Tags: Joan Didion, Djuna Barnes, Arts and Culture, Donald Barthelme
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